Questions tagged [intellectual-property]
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Can my company make me do work which is not in my contract or force me to teach/show others my work [closed]
I work for a company, and in my current role at this company my contract does not involve me writing code of any description or doing any development work.
I have over the past few years been writing ...
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How can I challenge ex-manager claiming undue credit without burning bridges?
A few weeks ago my manager from a previous company contacted me asking if he could include research I completed while working there in a conference paper he was writing. He said the paper would be an ...
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Possible intellectual property theft issue for a web application [closed]
About a year ago, I started working for a company (I'll call them Company A) and helped develop a web application for them. Eventually, my manager asked me to make changes to the application for ...
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Do accounts connected to company emails belong to the company?
Do accounts connected to company emails belong to the company ?
Are they allowed to change passwords and take control of any accounts connected ? Or do you have the right to take accounts that don't ...
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Company keeps former employee email accounts active - [closed]
A company I work for does not remove or delete former employees email accounts/passwords and login credentials they are easily accessible to keep using and in fact are sometimes used still for some ...
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How do I handle the Intellectual Property theft in office? [closed]
I have been working in a research organization for the last three years and developed a few innovative methods for practical problems.
While I was busy delivering to customers, my manager asked one ...
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Sharing Personal External Publications With Coworkers [closed]
I am new to my current company, but have 20 years with other companies. I am considering presenting some topics to my co-workers, but I think I'd like to share the same concepts with the rest of the ...
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How to best pitch my side project to my boss?
Our company develops and markets a series of software products. I'm a software developer. I've been working on a side project for the last month and a half outside of working hours. This is a product ...
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If a former employer did not pursue a creative idea, am I free to pursue it? [closed]
Background: I used to work as design director for an experiential company and, while employed there, I pitched an idea for a new experience that would fit really well within their brand. They thought ...
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Can a workplace ask for Power of Attorney? [closed]
A small company in the USA updated the "Employee Confidentiality Agreement and Intellectual Property Agreement" and is asking employees to sign it.
Under the heading "Assignment of ...
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Can Employer file case if by mistake employee down load source code
I am working as an software developer for startup IT software company.Company given me public access on all project source code .There is an download zip option on system on which by mistake I have ...
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Keeping and reusing code I wrote in my current job after I quit [closed]
I wrote a lot of code during my current job that I am now in the process of leaving.
Normally when I write programs, I refer to my old code all the time, I also have libraries of functions I include ...
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Use work laptop to develop a product on home system using VNC [closed]
I am planning to develop a private software product. I'm going to develop and save all code and documentation on the home system but to reduce headache of switching back and forth from the work laptop ...
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Do I have copyright for uncharged work when being on contract
I am a contractor working for a client in EU. In order to cover the requirements of the application we are building I wrote a small implementation of a framework. At least for half of the work on this ...
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What are my rights regarding IP (in UK) when there was no written contract and business never paid fully for the code
Hope you will be able to help me here. I do not really know if this is the correct place to ask such questions.
In 2014 I started to work for a certain company – the setup was that I was hired by my ...
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Do I 'own' work done separately for current employer? [closed]
I am on the payroll of a small company as a full-time employee. In my spare time I developed a small computer program that will automate a regular task done by another junior employee. This will free ...
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How to organize a "startup" within a company? [closed]
Me and my colleague friend were working on a development (coding) idea for quite a while. We explored tools, possible services and created several prototypes of our idea.
Eventually we became ...
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Copyright and the definition of "during employment" [closed]
I'm in the UK. My employment contract says that anything I create "during [my] employment" that "can be used in the course of the company's business" must be handed over to the company.
Suppose that ...
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Is it possible to obtain the computer files of previous university researchers/employees if they used the company/university wifi? [closed]
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I'm a post doc at a U.S. University. I need the files of a grad student research assistant who has left the lab. The student created files (data, codes, simulations, etc) for a ...
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Do I need to relinquish the password to forms I created? [closed]
Hello everyone and I appreciate the time you've taken to read this post.
I've recently parted ways with an employer.
During my time there, I created tools to standardise how my department and the ...
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Patent applications upon leaving a company
I'm working in a large tech company in the US. I want to know in a top tech company, what will usually happen to our submitted patents when we leave the company? What happens to the bonus and the ...
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How can I persuade my manager to include my name in the article if there's no attribution policy?
I work for a company as a copywriter. My core responsibility is to write engaging marketing content related to the product I'm advertising. Recently, I've written an article on my own initiative. I ...
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Startup based on my own side project open-sourced through my employer [closed]
I work at a FAANG-size company (moonlighting friendly in theory) and have a side project that I've built mostly in my free time, a bit during work hours, and had it recently approved by the legal ...
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Why should R&D staffs not the owner of the patent that they have developed? [closed]
I want to run a tech start-up, so I need to work with people to develop a product.
The output of product development would lead to some papers and patents.
My concern is, how can I treat with team ...
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